Section 40:
Sponsored schemes.
Notwithstanding anything in this Act, whenever the Institute receives
funds from any Government, the University Grants Commission or any other agency including
industry sponsoring a research scheme, a consultancy assignment, a teaching programme or a chaired
professorship or a scholarship, to be executed or endowed at the Institute,—
(a) the amount received shall be kept by the Institute separately from the fund of the Institute
and utilised only for the purpose of the scheme; and
(b) the staff required to execute the same shall be recruited in accordance with the terms and
conditions stipulated by the sponsoring organisation:
Provided that any money remaining unutilised under clause (a) shall be transferred to the
endowment fund created under section 25.